The moral foundations of politics
Editorial YALE UNIVERSITY PRESS
Festland Spanien
- Verlag YALE UNIVERSITY PRESS
- ISBN13 9780300079074
- ISBN10 0300079079
- Gegenstandsart Buch
- Buchseiten 289
- Jahr der Ausgabe 2003
- Bindung Stoffeinband
Abschnitte
Law Und Politische PhilosophieThe moral foundations of politics
Editorial YALE UNIVERSITY PRESS
Festland Spanien
Buch Details
Shapiro discusses the different answers that have been proposed by the major political theorists in the utilitarian, Marxist, and social contract traditions over the past four centuries. Showing how these political philosophies have all been decisively shaped by the core values of the Enlightenment, he demonstrates that each one contains useful insights that survive their failures as comprehensive doctrines and that should inform our thinking about political legitimacy. Shapiro then turns to the democratic tradition. Exploring the main arguments for and against democracy from Plato's time until our own, he argues that democracy offers the best resources for realizing the Enlightenment's promise and managing its internal tensions. As such, democracy supplies the most attractive available basis for political legitimacy.
Author Biography: Ian Shapiro is William R. Kenan, Jr. Professor and chairman of the department of political science at Yale University.
Also available by Ian Shapiro: Democratic Justice; Pathologies of Rational Choice Theory